Friday Lunch Gets Hot!

Ah Friday, and a pay day to boot.
So it is eating out time.

To the pub batman.

Not a bad pub either, I have been there before. Good prices, you can tell by the number of pensioners that frequent it.
Chicken Schnitzel for me, with gravy of course.
Salad bar looks good, so I have a crack at it. Nice potato salad, and colslaw.
Roast vegies too, why not.

Here is where the fun begins.
The "Sneeze Protectors" are set up so grandma and pops can easily access the food. Me at 6 foot with my numpty hands and fingers have trouble navigating under the guard.
Still I persevere and manage to procure some cheesed colieflower, brocolie, and roast potato with out incident.

So on to the roast pumpkin. Set at the back it is a very tricky course to get to it. The plastic tongs seem to be hot enough to melt in my hands.
That piece looks nice, I just have to move my hand this way to get at it so I can lift it.

Wow, my hand can move quick, oh yeah, a heat lamp will do that to you.

Manage to get another piece of pumpkin, but I paid a heavy price for my orange gold. I now have a 3/4 inch welt on the back of my hand. Punishment for my attenpt at pumkin entrapment.

I think it will leave a scar for a very long time. I will have to make up a good story about it though, imagine telling people about burning your hand trying to pick up pumpkin.
Maybe something about rope burn, all sorts of possibilites there.

Anyway, the schnitzel was a de-boned chicken made flat, like all good schnitzls in pubs, bigger than the place it came on. Drowned in gravy, with 3 or 4 chips caught in the flood stuck under the meat. At $12.50 and new scar for chicks to dig, I think I did pretty well out of lunch.

PS Orange meal from previous post was very nice. Mmmmm... Tasty.